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ChemEd X at BCCE 2018

If you are attending BCCE 2018 at Notre Dame this week, we hope you will stop in and see us at our booth (#560 in the exhibit hall! Many of our lead contributors are here and you can catch them speaking in a variety of symposiums including the Views from the classrooms of award winning chemistry teachers and our first Chemical Education Xchange: Engaging with contributors symposium. 

BCCE 2018 REGISTRATION is now OPEN

he Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) will be held at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana from July 29 through August 2, 2018. This is an excellent professional development opportunity for high school and college chemistry instructors.

ACS Discoveries! - Making Science More Accessible

The American Chemical Society is offering a new service in hopes of making science more accessible to the public. Each week they issue a short collection of science articles, written in an interesting and engaging style, that you might use with your students to help them make connections between the curriculum and their own lives. The service is called Discoveries!, and it is free.

An Old Favorite: Brass Pennies

Take a look at an old favorite, the brass penny activity. There are several variations of procedural steps to be found. The safest version uses either a low concentration of NaOH or a solution of zinc chloride. 

CHEMED 2017

ChemEd X is preparing for CHEMED 2017! If you are attending the conference, we hope you will stop by our booth in the exhibit hall and introduce yourself.